During the last fifteen years of my mother's life she suffered with Alzheimer's disease (老年性痴呆). Until then she had been a bright, ____ woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. I would go home to visit her in Virginia and she would look at me in a(an) ____ way and ask, "Who are you?" I would answer, "I'm your son." "Where do you live?" She would ask. "In California," I would tell her. "Isn't that interesting," she would say, "I have a son in California."
She seemed ____ forgetful and confused at the beginning of the disease, ____ later on she would go ___ periods of intense anxiety. She would pace through the house she had lived in most of her life ____ uneasily that she wanted to go home. Or she would leave home and wander away if she were ____ for a short time.
Hoping to please her and put her mind ____ I would take her for a drive, visiting sites where she had lived as a ____. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn. I ____ my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some ____. She shook her head and said, "I want to go home."
Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a ____, but a time. I suspect it was a time when she was much ____, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still vigorous and attentive.
Watching my mother's suffering set me wondering ____ I would have in mind if someday I couldn't find ____ and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some ____ symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only ____ and that it comes with age. Still the fear of Alzheimer's is haunting there. Someday ____ and when I become even more ____ minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your ____.
小题1: | A.accessible | B.cheerful | C.hopeful | D.considerate |
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小题2: | A.excited | B.doubtful | C.puzzled | D.amazed |
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小题3: | A.greatly | B.hardly | C.totally | D.simply |
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小题5: | A.with | B.through | C.by | D.over |
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小题6: | A.declaring | B.suggesting | C.crying | D.commenting |
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小题7: | A.unsettled | B.unattended | C.unconcerned | D.uninspired |
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小题8: | A.in place | B.under control | C.in order | D.at ease |
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小题9: | A.lady | B.student | C.child | D.mother |
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小题10: | A.told | B.pictured | C.stated | D.encouraged |
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小题11: | A.response | B.smile | C.reasons | D.answers |
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小题12: | A.name | B.dream | C.symbol | D.place |
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小题13: | A.prettier | B.younger | C.happier | D.healthier |
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小题14: | A.that | B.where | C.which | D.when |
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小题15: | A.memory | B.passion | C.home | D.way |
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小题16: | A.deadly | B.alarming | C.interesting | D.allergic |
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小题17: | A.natural | B.special | C.rare | D.unique |
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小题18: | A.if | B.what | C.until | D.whether |
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小题19: | A.mechanical | B.cloudy | C.clear | D.stubborn |
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小题20: | A.appreciation | B.satisfaction | C.guidance | D.convenience |
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